University of South Carolina Libraries
Brunton, Toombs Concrete McKissic Trees and leaves and shaded grass soon may be a thing of the past -- at least for the quadrangle behind McKissick library. Plans are being drawn to con .,struct an $8.5 million multi-plex "'-library, which will eventually hold 2.5 million books in which 1,500 students will be able to study, listen to football games or '1-l musical compositions. Begins tonight AWS to mi The freshmen of Carolina will be welcomed to the campus with a round of parties sponsored by Associated Women Students. President Peggy Harley has arranged mixers, pajama parties and an old-fashioned ice cream social. Tonight, mixers will be held in the residence halls. Town men and women will go to McClintock. Green St 1011 and Carlisle discus may repl k's I ower Harold Brunton. vice president for business affairs, said several months of designing remains for architects Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle and Wolfe. Although designs are in the process, the actual construction of the library is at least three years away, according to Gilbert Perry, an official of campus planning. According to Kenneth E. ~x freshmen Monday night for the pajama parties freshman girls will meet at 10:00 p.m. in their dorms, and counselors will explain the rules and regula tions of dormitory living to them. Transfer students will meet at 11:00 p.m. Thursday will wind up the week of activities with an old-fashioned ice cream social in the Women's Quadrangle, at 7:30 p.m. reet Church library model aCe 40 Toombs, director of libraries, students will have access to 50 miles of shelves containing books and periodicals. A computerized circulation system will ease the expansion and increase the efficiency of the library. The library will also feature photo-reception centers, labs for producing microfilms, revolving displays, individual seating areas for 1,500 students, typing rooms, microfilm reading rooms, com puterized order system, con ference rooms and various offices. Toombs said several carrels will have recording, audio and video equipment installed for use by students in music appreciation and other such courses. Students who would just like to listen to a football game or pass the time listening to music may also use the equipped carrels. Toombs also noted the library will stay open at least 18 hours daily. Pastor says Chur By SUSAN ROSS News Editor Green Street Methodist Church has lived through some bad years in its present location, according to Rev. Murray Yarborough. "Now, we want to live through some good," the church's pastor continues. In the church's location on the corner of Green and Assembly streets. Yarborough sees an outlook of a bright future. The church's congregation which was once 1,000 had in recent years slipped to 200, but is now up to 300. However, the location of the 93 year-old church falls within the boundaries of the East Glencoe Urban Renewal Project. The church has been fighting to maintain Its property since 1967. The battle which has been waged between Green Street United Methodist Church and the University officials was intensified Tuesday when the University announced future plans for use of the church property. USC announced that the church property would become part of a law school complex to be built In an area bordered by Main, Devine, Assembly and Grean. Vol. LX, No. 2 UniverstyofSouth Carolina, Columbia,SC29 September 12, 1969 ClasE 1154 By JIM WANNAMAKER and KAY BOOZER Staff Writers Carolina students have 115 more courses to choose from this year. They will spend less time in these courses- each week. Students will take fewer foreign language courses which will differ in content from those of last year. Most classes will meet only 45 minutes a session as they have since the faculty reduced the sessions from 50 to 45 minutes last spring on an experimental basis. Three credit courses will meet 15 minutes less per week, or 225 less per semester than they did under the 50 minute schedule. This change was adopted April 2. A permanent decision on class length was to have been made at the summer faculty meeting. No action was taken according to University Provost William Patterson. Patterson said that the 45 minute classes will be maintained as he feels that they represent the latest faculty action. "If they want to change, we will be glad to adopt any system the committee comes up with." The committee is the Faculty Advisory Committee. Last year it recommended University adoption of a modified five-day class schedule. But the recommendation was to the Academic Advisory Council, an advisory body to the president of the University, not to the faculty, which could possibly take direct action. , "We've made a lot of studies, but have taken no final action," said Patterson, who is also council chairman. Sign up for annuals Thursday Registration for Garnet and Black pictures and reservation of yearbooks will be Sept. 18-27 in the Russell House. Pictures will be made Sept. 29 - Oct. 11. According to Adair Watson, Garnet and Black editor, no pic tures will be made after Oct. 11. There is a $2 reservation fee for yearbooks. Those interested in working on the staff should come by room 312 in the Russell House or phone 4172, Miss Watson said. oh can'1 "The block In question is con sidered of prime importance to the growth and continuity of com munity service by USC," ac cording to University board chairman Rutledge Osborne. The announcement, according to Osborne, follows a complete review of the situation by the University. According to Osborne, the trustees feel that the congregation of Green Street Church will not be destroyed If It is moved, par ticularly if It Is moved to a location near the projected perimeter of USC. Methodist Bishop Paul Hardin Issued a statement saying: "We believe that we are better judges of that than the University trustees, and we say that for several basic reasons it cannot be - to move it Is to kill it." Yarborough further explained the church has several reasons for Insisting on remaining in its present site. The church would not be able to survive In the proposed future locations of the church, he. said. Not only would it be In com petition with other churches in a future location, but It would be out of walking distance for the students, he said. Stim .ours The council or President Thomas F. Jones could recommend the five-day schedule to the faculty. The faculty approved the 115 new courses during its summer meeting. Among them are a course on ancient African history and one on Negro authors in American literature. Basic language requirements for B.A. degrees in journalism and arts and sciences were reduced from 18 to 13 hours May 7 by the faculty. B.S. degree requirements in arts and sciences were reduced Begins Saturd Part Sorority rush begins Saturday with a Panhellenic Coke party in Capstone's Campus Room. Coeds may sign up for rush in the Russell House today and Saturday. Attendence to the party is required for all students wishing to go out for rush. All sorority women will meet in the Russell House Assembly Room at 11 a.m. Saturday. The sororities will first meet the rushees at ice- water teas Suhday from 2 to 4 p.m., Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 and Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30. Skit parties will be Sept. 17-21 except for Sept. 19, which is a free day. Last night parties will be Sept. 22, and Sept. 23 rushees will receive their bids at 6 p.m. Rushees will receive further information at Saturday's coke party. They will be given rush booklets and rules and will learn in which group they are to visit the sororities duriing the ice water teas. Dress for the parties includes school clothes for the ice water teas, bermudas or slacks for all skit parties and cocktail dresses for the last night parties. To be eligible for rush, freshmen and transfer students must have made 960 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Continuing students must have a GPR of 2.25 or better the previous semester. Students may sign up for fraternity rush Monday through Wednesday at Russell House patio Although no definite relocation sites for the church have been proposed by the University, he said any would be unsuitable. PARENTS! Yi ARE RESPONSIBLI YOUR CHILDRE PLEASE COOPER Parents: Do Y L ecut es a to 10 hours of foreign language courses. Foreign language courses on the 101 level will be four hours. The 102 level and above will still be three hours. Dr. David G. Speer, director of the department of foreign languages, said the courses will be "the most rewarding cultural and educational experience a student can have." Speer said the revised languages program would emphasize audio visual techniques--folk songs, color slides from French magazines and news slides. UY y open 9 to 5. A mass meeting will be in the Russell House auditorium Wed nesday for those who have not signed up and are interested. Fraternities will hold open houses Sept. 18 from 7:30 to 10:30 and Sept. 19 from 8:30 to 11:30. During these times rushees will visit all fraternities. Student People The right but the u One Carolina senior was so excited about her graduation this summer that she insisted her parents drive down for the glorious event. She made only one mistake. She told them graduation was at 8 p.m. rather than 10 a.m. After a late afternoon meeting, where she turned in her cap and gown, with President Jones she faced her parents and they returned home. A freshman in Cliff House is 6'8" and doesn't play basketball. Ac cording to him, a man keeps stopping him on campus to find out why he doesn't play ball. McGuire perhaps? Jo Ann Hiatt of Winnsboro is the first recipient of the MM Steward Scholarship for students from Fairfield County.... Robert A. Derks of Rock Hill and Michael D. Hem bree of Spartanburg have received $500 scholarships to the School of Journalism. Judy Lynn Perkerson received a P150 scholarship from the Walter II. and Marjory M. Rich Scholarship Fund of Atlanta. The icholarship fund assists children N AT E know where your chii freshmen girls Wade in a Be1l C. Ided Classrooms will be equipped with color televisions so professors may illustrate lectures with color slides and tapes. The department hopes later to have screens in the new library and in the dorms so students may review their lessons. The department also hopes to institute a year's study abroad for USC credits. Rather than using translations, the goal is to "make the language experience also cultural by selections of materials," Speer said. r rush Stag smokers, which are by invitation only, will be Sept. 20 from 2 to 5 p.m. and Sept. 21 from 7-10 p.m. Off campus parties are Sept. 22 25 from 8 to midnight. The last smokers will be Sept. 26 from 8:30 to 10:30 and pledging will be Sept. 27 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. place... rong time or wards of employees of the Rich's Department Stores. ** * Carl Stepp has been awarded a $1,000 Pointer Fund scholarship. The fund is associated with the St. Petersburg Times and the Congressional Quarterly. Stepp was also a finalist in the Sigma Delta Chi Barney Kilgore Award competition. Corwin M. Robinson III, a for mer Carolina student, has been appointed to the Air Force Academy. He was one of 10 AFROTC students in the nation to be selected for transfer to the academy this fall. Sarah Elizabeth Bryan, Tamara Gwen Hall. Joyce Hedgecock, David R. Roach, Louis M. Ryan and Lynda Anne Thorne have been selected to study at the University of Warwick in Warwick. England, under the annual fall semester exchange program. ** * The dean of the School of Journalism, Dr. Albert T. Scroggins Jr., has been named (Continued on Page 2) mp 4